United Kingdom
Related: About this forumHello American friends
In case you're wondering what might prompt someone to murder a Labour MP it's fair to say that we in the UK have no idea. It certainly wasn't anything like this:
:large
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I spent a half a summer there and I loved the UK. Two of my former students did internships there and stayed. My sympathy on the loss of MP Cox.
The King of Prussia
(737 posts)For all I know we had it first.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)On both sides of the proverbial pond, we all have our fascist crosses to bear.
(on edit, and as an aside: when ever I welcome a new DU member, I cannot help to think of our dear member, NewYawker99/Roni. I miss her so much. )
leveymg
(36,418 posts)We slide into the Atlantic, Black Sea and Mediterranean together, pulling each other down. How's the weather in Damascus, today?
libodem
(19,288 posts)PeoViejo
(2,178 posts)Cameron says.
shenmue
(38,506 posts)wryter2000
(46,039 posts)So sorry you've caught our sickness.
felix_numinous
(5,198 posts)there are many countries dealing with the extremist right.
Welcome and cheers
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)It was maybe 15 years ago, I was vacationing (you call it holiday) in U.K. and I recall a billboard, something warning about the conservative party, the tag line was, ".... be very afraid."
Not much different from Cameron's tweet except Cameron was a bit more specific.
The King of Prussia
(737 posts)This
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Denzil_DC
(7,233 posts)It's William Hague's face photoshopped (not terribly well) onto Maggie Thatcher's hairdo, or vice versa. Pretty tame by the standards of UK party political posters through the ages, TBH.
I can't see much of a parallel between that and Cameron's inflammatory tweet. The implication was that Hague, Tory Party leader at the time, despite attempts to portray him as a baseball cap-wearing beer-swilling dweeb o' the people, was the inheritor of Thatcher's mantle. Considering he first made a public splash as a 16-year-old giving a speech to the Tory Party Conference where he wowed the assembled, including Thatcher, with the incandescent wisdom that "half of you won't be here in 30 or 40 years' time", and was too right-wing for the likes of Michael Heseltine to consider serving under him if he became prime minister, it doesn't seem an unreasonable tack.
Funnily enough, the photoshopped poster bears an uncanny resemblance to Heseltine.
Hoppy
(3,595 posts)Ken Burch
(50,254 posts)Nothing in that image would make anyone murder a Tory MP.
AllyCat
(16,184 posts)He and Trump should get on well I suspect.
sarge43
(28,941 posts)Sanders supporters are left wing tea baggers.
http://www.democraticunderground.com/12511248641
IronLionZion
(45,433 posts)except there's no need to kill anyone. I would just deport Trump back to his mother's homeland until we can figure this out. So then he will be Scotland's problem.
shadowmayor
(1,325 posts)Re-uniting two countries once separated by a common language!